A giant marrow wins all six classes in the giant vegetable competition, environmentalists hold a mass floating event in the Dead Sea and more in today’s daily brief.

A woman practices yoga during a mass floating event in the Dead Sea. Hundreds took part in the event to raise environmental awareness for the ailing sea, located at the earth’s lowest point. The event took place on the one-year anniversary of the day when thousands of naked volunteers posed at the Dead Sea for U.S. artist Spencer Tunick, who also attended Friday’s event. (Nir Elias/Reuters)

Greenpeace activists stand near a stuffed polar bear at a Shell gasoline station in the central Dutch town of Breukelen to protest against drilling in the Artic sea. The organization is blocking some 50 Shell gasoline stations in the Netherlands to protest against oil drilling off the coast of Alaska. According to the US Geological Survey, the Arctic is believed to hold 13 percent of the planet’s undiscovered oil reserves and 30 percent of its undiscovered natural gas. (Marcel Antonisse/AFP/Getty Images)

Four-year-old Rizky pours water on himself as he takes a bath in front of his house at a slum area in Jakarta. (Beawiharta/Reuters)

Seven-year-old Mamat (R) sits beside his younger brother who is sleeping on the floor at a slum area in Jakarta. (Beawiharta/Reuters)

Men take shelter under a footbridge in a park during a rain shower in New Delhi. India’s monsoon rains were 31 percent above average in the week to September 5, the weather office said last week, the second straight week of heavier than normal rains, reducing the threat of a prolonged drought in the south Asian country. (Mansi Thapliyal/Reuters)

A Muslim man burns a U.S. flag during a protest against a film they consider blasphemous to Islam, outside a mosque in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad. (Krishnendu Halder/Reuters)

A worker frowns amidst dust inside an open-air plant which crushes rocks to produce construction materials on the Gobi Deserton Gobi Desert in Aksu, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region. China’s economic slowdown is expected to reach its nadir this quarter, with a recovery of momentum delayed until the final quarter, leaving growth for 2012 likely to fall below 8 percent, a level unseen since 1999, a Reuters poll showed. (Stringer/Reuters)

A man reclines on the floor of a church-run shelter in Matamoroa, Mexico. His legs are dotted with insect bites; his feet severely blistered. The man was kidnapped by gunmen and forced to share the back seat of a car with the body of a man who was tortured to death. Days later, he was released after convincing his captors that he was not a rival cartel member. He walked barefoot for two days and nights through the desert to reach this shelter. (Don Bartletti/Los Angeles Times/MCT)

Weightlifter Jonathan Walker from Harrogate poses for the media as he lifts a marrow weighing 119lbs 12oz which won the Giant Marrow Class in the Harrogate Autumn Flower Show in Harrogate, England. The giant marrow was grown by Peter Glazebrook, from Newark, who won all six classes in the giant vegetable competition during the show at The Great Yorkshire Showground. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Shipyard workers work on breaking apart the front end of a cargo vessel beached at one of the 127 ship-breaking plots in Geddani, some 40Kms west of Karachi on July 10, 2012. Geddani’s ship-breaking yards employ some 10,000 workers including welders, cleaners, crane operators and worker supervisors. It takes 50 workers about three months to break down a midsize average transport sea vessel of about 40,000 tonnes. For a six-day working week of hard and often dangerous work handling asbestos, heavy metals and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), employees get paid about $300 US a month of which half is spent on food and rent for run-down rickety shacks near the yards, a labour representative told AFP. (Roberto Schmidt/AFP/Getty Images)

Children ride in the back of an army truck after being evacuated from Morazan in Chimaltenango department, 125 km south of Guatemala City on September 13,2012 after the village was affected by columns of ash released by the Volcan de Fuego. Guatemala’s Volcano of Fire had its strongest eruption in a decade on Thursday, prompting the evacuation of around 33 thousand people, officials announced. (Johan Ordonez/AFP/Getty Images)

US Army soldiers from the 1st Platoon, Delta Coy, 1-64 ARS army – operating under NATO sponsored International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) patrol along a dirt road leading to Nevay-deh village, a short distance from the Lindsey forward operating base on September 13, 2012 in Kandahar province, Afghanistan. (Tony Karumba/AFP/Getty Images)

A Syrian woman walks past a destroyed building while reaching a food distribution centre in Aleppo on September 13, 2012. Syrian fighter jets and tanks pounded the northern city of Aleppo, an AFP journalist said, as witnesses reported rebels advancing into the key contested central Midan district. (Marco Longari/AFP/Getty Images)

A suit of armour owned by Emperor Maximilian I and dating from approximately 1485, is displayed as part of the exhibition “Emperor Maximilian 1 and the art of the Albrecht Durer period” at the Albertina museum in Vienna on September 13, 2012. (Alexander Klein/AFP/Getty Images)

A spectator looks at an artwork titled “Maximilian I” by artist Ambrogio de Predis displayed as part of the exhibition “Emperor Maximilian 1 and the art of the Albrecht Durer period” at the Albertina museum in Vienna on September 13, 2012. (Alexander Klein/AFP/Getty Images)

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